Board hears new district improvement plan priorities, HB3 goals and superintendent scorecard to track benchmarks

Dr. June Richland, executive director of educational leadership, presented the CASTLEBERRY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT's 2025'6 District Improvement Plan priorities and the district's recommended House Bill 3 (HB3) five-year goals for early literacy, numeracy and college, career and military readiness (CCMR).

The nut graf: staff combined academic priorities (content alignment, writing instruction, early literacy, math fluency and retester reduction) into a DIP tied to HB3 performance objectives, and the superintendent described a new scorecard district leaders will use to track nine-week benchmarks and prompt corrective action.

Richland outlined the DIP's instructional priorities: vertical alignment for eighth-grade social studies (grades 6'8), use of released items in formative assessments, protected elementary social-studies time and supporting teachers with pacing and PLCs; math acceleration and vertical alignment (including having seventh graders take eighth-grade math to expand Algebra I access); and a heavy emphasis on English I and II through full-day PLCs, coaching cycles and data walks.

A central focus was extended constructed responses (ECRs). Richland…